Error (law) definition

(1) A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

"He made a bad mistake"

"She was quick to point out my errors"

"I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"

(2) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

(3) Inadvertent incorrectness

(4) Departure from what is ethically acceptable

(5) A misconception resulting from incorrect information

(6) Part of a statement that is not correct

"The book was full of errors"

(7) (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer